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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27
The Sun Cooling Down.

Men seem most indifferent to those
matters which concern them most. 1t
is the opinion of scientific minds that
the sun is cooling down; yet people arc
going about the streets i'll mere seer
suckers and straw hats, and even in
shirt sleeves. 1t is now we'll establish
ed that the sun is not burning fire; il
is merely a fluid mass cooling, with
some little accession of fresh energy by
meteors occasionally falling in, 'of very
small amount compared with the
amount of heat the sun steadily loses. y
The theory that the sun shrinks be
cause it gets colder, and that the pro.
cess of shrinking makes it hotter had
misled many good people. So they eat
ice cream and drink cold lemonade and
s0-called soda water, and wear Gauzc
underwear, and fan themselves, and
that sort of thing. But the lat st con
clusions of science show that the sun is
still cooling down, and the scientific man
can figure out that yesterday WIS coll
day, and that during these two July
weeks we should have had the furnaces
going, and put on fur mittcns and ear
muffs. A man has only to fill himself
MP with conclusions of science III order
to correct the notion that the weather IS
warm. As the sun is growing colder
the mutual gravitatiOn of its particles as
it shrinks giving rise to less than 1t lost
by radiation-it is manifestly impossible
that the weather should be us hot us the
living barometer declares. 1t is easy to
prove by any faith healer that if man
once makes up his mind the weather is
cold, his collar viii no longer droop in
Slampness about his throbbing neck, the
perspilatiolI viii cease to run in streams
down his back, and he can he comfort
able only with fur overcoat, and fur
cap and woolen hose.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27
Woman at the Bank.

A gentle, lovely woman entered a
bank. She wanted a check cashed, so
she went to the receiving teller,s window
and thrust the check in. The teller
showed it back.
''Next winder," said he.
"Next winter [ can't wait till next
winter exclaimed the lady.
81 said next winder," shouted the tel
ter, wind o-w, winder; tOther winder. ,
ooh, yes, but this is the receiving
window, isn't it -
eyes, but you can't get any money
here"
"But I'm going to receive it, amt II "
"Not here you amt; go to the other
winder, lady; he'll fix you"
The lady was still uncertain, but she
went and showed in her check. The
polite official thrust it back. ''It's not
endorsed, madam, said he.
"Not endorsed What does that
mean 2"
'Ts your name Tucker 2"
''P'raps it is and p'aps it amt. What
business is that o'yours ?"
els this your name on the face of this
check p
eyes, it is"
"Well, you've got to endorse 1t.
''That's what you said before. What
do you mean?''
'fYou must write your name across
the back Of it.
''But my names on it already"
''On the front. That amt enough; it
must be across the back"
"Oh, we'll, gi'me it" She took it and
carefully wrote her name upside down
across the bottom of the check, and
handed it in.
"You endorsed it wrong, madam"
"How'd l know how you wanted it 2
Why didn't you tell me p
81 thought did; here, write it across
the top, So" and the teller painfully
showed her, and with much grudging she
complied. The teller thercnpon cashed
her check with two silver dollars.
81 aint going to take those, she said.
"Gi'me bills"
The teller sighed and gave her two
one-dOllar bills, whercupon she picked
up her parasol and departed.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27
AN UNEXPECTED FIND.
Two Laborers Unexpectedly Come
Upon a Mine of Secreted Wealth.

lffom the Pittsburgh Dlspatch.]
New Portage, an ordinarily quiet ham
let OF Ohio, is in an uproar over the dis
covery of n miser's hidden wealth.
Washington Reichard and man named
Snyder were at work telling timber on
the old Davis farm, near Davis's Lake
One OF the trees they had cut down
ready to saw into lengths was an old
maple of unusual girth. As they were
saving it up they noticed a peculiar plug
projecting from a hole near the lowest
branching point. Pulling it out, q shin
ing silver dollar rolled out, and then
they noticed that the trickling water
had rotted out quite large cavity, and
this they began to explore Making u
hole large enough to admit his hand,
one o. them drew forth roll of bills,
which, in his own language, was ''as
big as your arm Some of the notes
were worn so that the denominations
could scarcely be read; others were in q
fair state of preservation.
The men had scarcely recovered from
the tremor of joy into which the discov-
cry of the bank notes had thrown them
when the hand of the explorer grasped
the neck of a shot bag that was full of
gold and silver coin. They left the major
part of the find in the tree, and hurrying
to the nearest country store invested
IN suit of clothes for each, boots, hats,
under-clothing, and all; then going to
the village hotel, they called all hands
up to the bar and, throwing down a gold
piece, ordered drinks for the house.
The story of the sudden show of money
by men known for years as impecunious
laborers quickly spread, and there were
something like a score of New Portage
ties quickly on hand drinking to the
health of the lucky men, Reichard and
Snyder said nothing about the source of
their wealth, and the story of the find
did not leak out until to -dag. People
focked to the woods where the tree lay,
but the two men had meantime removed
the treasure.
A miserly farmer named Tracsbach
lived ON the place fifteen years ago, and
when he died there was long and fruit
less search for his wealth. His imme-
diate relatives have since moved away,
and the farm has lately passed into the
hands of q young farmer named John
Warner. The discoverers of the treas
ure refuse to say how much there is of
it, but old residents who knew Tracs-
bach say it is several thousand dollars.
The owner of the farm Will endeavor to
get an accounting.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27

can get fat in a very short time, if you
want to.
"How?" demanded Jones, eagerly.
''Buy prize pig" chuckled Robin
son, as he vanished around the corner
VACATION BY REQUEST.
"Hello, Charley, what are you doing
moving" asked one young man of an
other whom he met with big valise in
his hand.
GIVE just commenced my vacation"
"Your vacation 2"
Eyes. I'm vacating at the request of
my landlady. - Washington Critic.
LONESOME.
At Bar Harbor.
Young Gallant Miss Mabel, why so
pensive? We have been sitting here
gazing out upon the ocean for over an
hour and you have scarcely spoken a
word.
Miss Mabel-I'm lonesome, that's all.
-To6o1s Topics.
A LAWYERS TRIALS.
owe all have our burdens to bear"
said the minister ''There are many
trials IN this life.
''Yes, 1 suppose there are," replied
the poor lawyer, ruefully, "but I don't
seem to have much luck at getting
mixed up in 'em. ''-Merchant TTageller
NICE LITTLE BOY.
"You were nice, quiet little boy in
Sunday school this morning, Bobby"
said the minister. 81 was very much
pleased"
eyes, d" replied Bobby, 'spa said if I'd
behave myself in Sunday school
needn't go to church."
LIKES AND DIsLIKEs.
81 s'pose you like cutomers that pay
as they 60, said suspicious party as
he registered his name
eyes" replied the hotel clerk, ''if
they've got baggage; if they haven't, we
llke'em to pay when they come. Two
dollars, please"
A KINDER HORSE NEVER LIVED.
Passenger on front platform That
nigh one looks like a pretty good horse
Drivcr-A kinder animal never lived.
Passenger-Kind How so?
Drlver-He kinder bites and kinder
hISho ttlu hluu0f NdIlUS TO run once IN q
while.
THE FIGHT.
''Now," said Walnut street Sunday
school teacher, ''our lesson to-day is
about the battle between David and
Goliath. Why did they fght2"
Little Towhead-For the gate receipts
and points. ts.--LouiSciBc Courier.
RADTy uAEDTcAppED
Chicago Man-What do you think of
the city
Stranger-Quite number of houses
here; but it's too near Canada to ever
amount to much in q business way.
THE REPLY.
Young Man-Will you give assent to
my marriage with your daughter, sir
Old Man Cirmly)-No, sir, not q cent.
Bazar.
OF AGE.
Just of age is Jones's sweetheart;
When he asked the little wit
If she loved him, she said pfrtly,
Just 1S-ty little Bit"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27
THE LAND In IRELAND.
The Landlords Won't Sell Even
When the Tenants Can Buy.

While the women scrubbed away at
their tins and the brisk old granny was
busy with her knitting [ told them
about America, says a letter writer.
They were surprised to learn, these sim
pie housewives who had never been
farther fRom home than Killarney. that
in America folks had to pav poor rates
and school taxes and land taxes. They
| had had a hazy idea that everythin0
was ''free" in America. By and bv. aiI
wet and smelling of the stables the
farmer came ina sturdy, hard-worked
fellow, who admitted that there was NOT
one in hundred of his ncighbors as
well off as himself. He talked farming
and explained many curious points of
the condition of tenant farmers to rs
When / asked him what was the cause
of so much discomfort and SUFFERING
among the people he put by his pipe
and burst forth in a long TRADE con
cerning the peasant people and land
lords Small farms, six, eight and ten
acres, for the support of ten and twelve
human beings; poor land, potatoes re-
failing Mt five cents for fourteen pounds,
rents ranging from IS ~ so an acre
per year for the land, to which must be
added taxes; all this was the burden of
his discourse.
"Do you own your farm1'' I asked.
"No."
"Why don't you buy one? Ha7en't
you the money!" ~
Eyes, I have, but the landlords are
gentry, from one end of the island to
the other, and they won't sell. There is
no land for sale in Ireland"
When man rents farm in ireland
he has to pay about $3.50 deposit fol the
privilege of renting pretty much on the
same plan as we at home have to make
Il deposit in order to get the gas turned
on in our houses. If he ever leaves his
farm either the new tenant or the
ejecting landlord, must give him back
his deposit money. The reason there
are no farms changing hands in Ireland
is because the young men who are COM
ing on to be farmers have no money for
this big deposit. so when lad grows up
all he can do is to share his fathers lit
tie patch of ground. If it were not for
the sons and daughters i'll America who
send home money to these old fathers
and mothers there is scarcely family
of tenant farmers in the country but
would suffer for food every year of their
lives - 49, :
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27
Terrible Fight with a Rather

Ninita- (I. l.. J despatch to Kansas city
Times says: One of the most desperate
and thrilling adventures ever recorded
took place last Sunday evening, about
four miles northwest of this city, in
which the terrible fangs of a diamond
rattlesnake were matched against the
strong arms of youthful boy. Monroe
Keys, a brawny, stout young lad OF
some fourteen years of age, accompanied
by two sisters, by some years the seniors
of Monroe, started from the house TO the
spring, n short distance away, to get a
pail of water. When near the foot of
slant where the spring was, to their sur
prise the party discovered huge rattle
snake which lay coiled a few PAGES in
their lead. The appearance of the
young people seemed to enrage the rat
tier to such an extent that it at once
commenced lashing its tail and kissing
with such fury that the noise could be
heard for a considerable distance away
Not waiting to be further disturbed, the
huge reptile made q dash at the crowd,
springing far into the air and falling on
the ground with a deep thud. The
young boy remained very much com
posed and with the determination of a
Young warrior calmly took off his belt
and attacked the snake i'll fight to
death.
After q struggle for sCme time the
snake made final spring at his antago
mist and its terrible fangs were clinched
on either side i'll the muscular part of
the boys arm, just below the elbow.
After the snakes hold had been broken |
it dropped from the bleeding wound to
the ground and started to run, but still
having the determination to kill his
enemy, the boy siezed it by the tail, and
in swinging it around his head, fortu-
nately, undoubtedly for the boy, the
reptiles head struck a boulder which
lay close by, and was crushed, causing
leath. Without moments delay a
messenger was summoned to this city
or physician. When Dr.. FOrtn9r
md the messenger returned in company
With B. B. Bower, of this city, the un-
ortunate lad had been we'll treated with
liquor and his life saved. DR.. Fortner
extracted the clotted blood from the
wound and administered such other
treatment as was necessary. and left the
young man in a fair way to recovery.
The snake was examined and was found
o be of the genuine diamond stripe, the
most poisonous, measuring four and
'ne-half feet in length and fully five
nches through, carrying twelve mon
trous rattles.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27
Senator Farwell's Texas Land.

Senator Charles V. Farwell, of Hi
nois, and his partners, his brother and
Abner Taylor, of Chicago, will make
from S15, 900, 900 to 500, 900, 900 in their
Texas land speculation. 1t is said that
the State of Texas has given to the Far
we'll Company 5000, LOCO acres Of land in
Texas. The land to-day is worth S5 an
acre, and the State buildings that were
built for it did not cost more than ST.
600, ,00O The land is all fenced i'll.
Seventv-five thousand cattle arc now Oh
it, and more are to follow. 1t com
prises enough territory for IL prlncipall-
ty. The Farwell Company have their
Headquarters in London. English capi-
talists own about one-quartCr of the
stock. This great and successful ven
turc was brought to the Iarwells by mn
impecunious and visionary man, who
obtained the contracts which he sold to
the Farwell Company. The story goes
that the man was in Austin, and hear
ing that the State was offering the land
to any one who would put up State
buildings. he calmly walked up and
took the contract, when he had barely
enough money in his pocket to pay his
way to Chicago. The same men who
gave away such block of land rather
than raise the money necessary by tax
alton of course never dreamed of ques-
t;oning the contractors financial ability.
He had some trouble in convincing the
Farwells of the alue of the land owing
to their distrust of the visionary con-
tractors judgment, but investigation
showed the value, and SO the contract
WIS purchased for few thousand dol
lnrs, and property was obtained whicl!
will net its owners many millions.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27
Domestic Diplomacy.
From the Minneapolis Journal.l


Mr.. Montgomery has been overrun
with visitors of late. All of his rela-
tiyes and those of his wife have swooped
down on him like the grand jury on the
blind pigs, This has made Mr.. Mont
pomery weary. He has even gone so far
as to swear that he will do all IN his
power to annihilate the exposition. All
last week Mr.. Montgomery had to sleep
in the woodshed and eat his meals off OF
the ironing board. This has tired Mr..
MONTGOMERY as completely as black
smith tires a wagon wheel. But the
climax was reached the other evening.
Clergy. dear" said Mrs. Montgom-
ery, when he came home to dinner, ''we
are going to have more company"
Fergy groaned.
"Such nice people. l just got the
letters to-day. The Thompsons are
coming with their three beautiful chill
dren and that delightful grandmother.
Then Carrie Thurston is coming with
her new husband and three OF the bridal
party and Carries mamma, and the
Harringtons, whom we met at Saratoga
this summer, and those friends of mann
ma at Fargo. They will be here to.
Mamma is COIllnSs IOo, anu
-" but Ferguson had gone.
An hour later he returned in a state
of calm. That night he left the house
for few minutes. The next morning
the house was covered with placards.
They read in big, black letter:
''Scarlet Fever" ''Diphtheria,
s'Small- -Pox." "All persons forbidden
to enter, by order of the Board of
Health, per S. S. Kilvington.'
Then Mr.. Montgomery danced about
III unholy glee.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27
Not Like Ale.

+ "Have you seen this story about Abe
Lincoln, where, when he was a clerk in
a dry goods store, he discovered after
the lady had gone, that he had cheated
her out of six and quarter cents in
making change, and how he closed the
store and walked three miles after, dark
that evening to refund the money r.
This question was asked by the min
lister and addressed to cid Sobersides.
Yes" said Sobersides, Eve got a
clerk who reminds me of Old Abe, and
every time 1 read that story 1 think OF
him"
You don't say. He must be a splen-
did fellow"
"'He is. He had precisely the same
experience that is told of Lincoln" "
''You don't say Failed to give back
the right amount of changer Discov-
cred his mistake, and walked three
miles to give it back? Did he do that %
eyes, better than that He walked
four miles instead of three, and did not
return until two O'Clock next morning. "
Magnificent youth God bless
him - eiaculatad the minister.
eyes, nice fellow, and would have
made his mark, too, if the girl hadn't
had him arrested"
Arrested What for?''
"Breach of promise. "-Bismarch TiI-
Jsae.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27
A StOryiwi o Moral.

Near a railroad crossing where trains
frequently wal ed for connection berries
were very plentiful. Two women con-
ceived the idea of making little money
by selling fresh berries to the hot and
dusty travellers. They forthwith put
their idea into execution, and were soon
passing through the waiting trains offer
ing the fruit for sale. One invariably
made ready sales, selling out before she
had gone through a train; the other
always had berries left unsold, and
sometimes she failed to sell any. One
made a handsome little "pile' by the
end of the season; the other questioned
whether she had been paid for her time.
The reason for the success of the one
and the failure of the other was not
hard to find. It all lay in the manner
of service. One of these women was
careless and untidy in her appearances
the other was scrupulously neat and
clean; one measured her berries from
her basket in cup, filing it with her
hands as she passe through the train;
the other made up little paper holders
lined with fresk green leaves, and these
she filled with berries before the train
arrived No one wonders which would
sell the best.
Probably some baker or confectioner
may suspect a. smau-sized moral lying
around loose hereabouts.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27
IT READS LIKE A FAIRY TALE.
A Georgia Farmers Benevolence
Rewarded by Pile of Money.

ATLANTA, GA pretty little ro-
nance has Just reached an interesting
elimination in Rabun county. At the
base of the Tiger Mountain, half a mile
off the main road leading to Clayton,
resides o sober old farmer named George
W. billiard, who has wife and two
sons. Early last summer Mr.. billiard
received a letter from his wife's brother,
whom he had not seen since 1849. At
that time James McCurrie was a Young
man, as was also George W. billiard.
| The news had reached Georgia of the
wonderful gold discoveries in Califor-
MIA. Among those who were full of the
excitement were McCurrie and billiard.
| They had perfected all arrangements
for going thither, and were bidding the
family goodby when billiard faltered.
The fearful eyes of McCurrie's young
sister touched his heart, especially as
she was weeping for him and not for her
brother. Throwing down his bundle,
he declared that he would stay if the
girl would marry him. To this she
cheerfully agreed, SO billiard remained
Georgia farmer, while McCurrie jump
ed into the stage coach and was borne
away. Since that time he has never
been heard of.
1t was with mingled feelings, there
fore, that billiard read the letter from
his old comrade. McCurrie stated that
he had worked against adverse fortune,
declining to write to the folks at home
until he could strike it rich, but every
year found him growing poorer, and
now, old, feeble and poor, his great wish
was to look once more upon his native
hills; that he could not do SO unless he
was sent money enough upon which to
return. Mr.. billiard read the letter to
his wife and sons. 49,
"We must send him the money, said
the old man. So COW and mule were
sacrificed, and the money went on its
mission across the continent. Several
weeks time brought another letter in
which the old man expressed his CRATE
fulness for the kindness done him, but
he was too i'll to undertake the journey.
After that no more was heard from him.
On Monday billiard received a letter
which recited that James McCurrie was
dead; that he wished to test the fidelity
of his sisters family; that their prompt
response to his appeal had moved him,
and that by his will his property i'll
valued at $1,600,O00, was
willed in equal parts to his sister, her
husband and their two sons.
The two young men passed through
Atlanta en- route for California to take
possession of the property, which they
hope to shortly convert into cash, when
they will return.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-10-27
Advertising Rates.
RAEX RER YEAn
A WONANS WAY.

Among the water lilies, one golden after
dolden in the sunshine of perfect day il
The trees in all their beauty, so fresh anc
passing green,
cast trembling, feeting shadows, which
dlmmed the rivers sheen.
Among the water lilies
didn't tell him 'ENay,"
And yet, say emphatic,
never said him Yea"
I've hearl the world say, smiling,
'Oh, that's woman's way!"
We talked about the river and how it slid
along,
We talked about the stirring birds and lis
- tened % theic song;
plueked two Tster lilies, with broad, green,
dripping leaves
AS we sailed meath trees which sheltered like
oyerhanging caves.
Among the water lilies
didn't tell him ''Nay,"
And yet, 1 say emphatic,
never said him yea"
I've heard the world say, smiling,
'Oh, that's womans way!"
Our boat went slowly drifting with wind or
with the tide,
Crushing down the water lilies a-near on
every side
The swallows almost touched as they
skinned the water DER.
We drifted and drifted, by the ready,
fow'ry shore.
Among the water lilies
didn't tell him ''Nay,"
And yet, l say emphatic.
l never said him 'eYea"
I've heard the world say, smiling,
"Oh, that's woman's wayr"
1t seemed to me like fairyland. twas all so
passing fair
With breath of flowers and music sweet per-
vading all the air;
Zen the Prince was not a-wanting, and he
acted out his part
For he told me of his waiting, his throbbins,
aching heart
Among the water lilies
1 didn't say him Nay"
And yet it seemed unmaidenlv
To say emphatic yea"
I've heard the world say, smiling,
''Oh, that's woman's way!"
lido not know what love is of which the poets |
sing
l know It's something serious, a most impor-
tant thing
But know I'm very happy, just as happy's
birds in June,
And God grant our lives be always one goldon
afternoon.
Among the water lilies
didn't tell him ''Nay"
l said, with all my heart and soul,
A most emphatic ''Yea."
I've heard the world say smiling,
''Oh, that's woman's way!"
Isabel Gordon.